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Phil Jimenez

Master Seminar Instructor

Diamond and Inkpot Award-winning artist Phil Jimenez (Infinite Crisis) has nearly 25 years of experience illustrating in the comic book industry. Jimenez’s art is well known for its density, its multi-panel design, and the “acting” of its characters on page. His artwork was featured in two of the top 10 single best-selling issues between 2000 and 2010.

From his early days as a George Perez “clone” to his modern work, now wholly his own, which mixes a classic approach to drawing with modern sensibilities of design, Jimenez approaches characters as actors, backgrounds as sets, and storytelling as a director does, using lighting, acting, location, design, and emotion to elicit the strongest possible reactions from his readers. He remains best known for his work onWonder Woman, Infinite Crisis, New X-Men, and The Amazing Spider-Man.

“Robert is an amazing illustrator who has worked on titles for Marvel, DC and IDW. Incidentally, his teaching is on par with his art… Robert has the uncanny ability to make artists feel good about what they have produced even while covering their art in corrections… At the end of a critique, rather than feel bad that I didn’t do the art better, I felt invigorated to have new artistic weapons in my arsenal. As a result of Robert’s instruction, I left every class a better artist. I don’t consider myself a great artist yet, but I feel that I’ve been firmly placed on the path to become one. That’s what a great teacher does. Now, if anyone asks me who my favorite teacher is I can tell them: It’s Robert Atkins.”